Question

Give some information about Robert southey

Answer 1

Answer:

Robert Southey ,(12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England's Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843. Although his fame has been eclipsed by that of Wordsworth and Coleridge, his verse still enjoys some popularity.

Robert Southey

Portrait, c. 1795

Portrait, c. 1795

Born

12 August 1774

Bristol, England

Died

21 March 1843 (aged 68)

London, England

Occupation

Poet, historian, biographer, essayist

Literary movement

Romanticism

Spouse

Edith Fricker (1795–1838; her death)

Caroline Anne Bowles (1839–1843; his death)

Answer 2

Answer:

Robert southey I was born in the year 1774 he was the son of a linen draper of a a respectable Som rest family while he was schooling in Westminster he wrote a composition against flogging because of which he was explled from the school.